Ringo Deathstarr is an American shoegazing band from Austin, Texas, United States. The band was formed by singer/songwriter Elliott Frazier in 2007, and released their eponymous EP on the same year.[1] This was followed by a string of singles and a series of international tours[2] hitting both coasts and the streets of the UK and Japan. The band’s debut full-length album, Colour Trip, was released in February 2011 by Club AC30. They toured with The Smashing Pumpkins in the winter of 2011/2012. The name of the band is a portmanteau of The Beatles drummer's name, Ringo Starr, and the Death Star.

The band has been generally described as regurgitating the shoegaze sound in an attempt to mimic bands such as Ride, The Jesus & Mary Chain, and My Bloody Valentine as well as a drone component inherited through Spacemen 3. Allmusic describes them as "immersing themselves so totally in the style of their influences that they sound exactly like them", yet also noting that "if you take a more positive stance, you can commend the trio’s skill at re-creation, lose yourself in the warmly fuzzy guitars that flood the album from beginning to end, or let the honey-sweet vocals of bassistAlex Gehring wash away your nagging doubts".[4]BBC took a less positive stance, saying of the band that "they offer evidence that ultimately, it doesn't matter if your band lacks any real ingenuity or originality, because if you play loud enough people will, eventually, begin to notice you", summarizing the band as "shoegazedrone-noise from Texas, done well but done several times before".[5]